The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-22
4 NEW DlPHTHERIA CUBE.
The Treatment by IntubstiOR
Which is Said to- be so
Successful.

The New York correspondent
describes new process of treating
diphtheria. He writes:
On the bed lay young boy gasping
for breath. He was not over years of
age. Had not his features been distorted
by his terrible struggle to obtain relief
from the sitting feeling that oppressed
him, he would have been considered
handsome child. As it was, his eyes
were bullying from their sockets, his
mouth was drawn out of shape, and his
entire frame was racked by feveriSh
commissions. His stertorious breathing
fell upon the deathly silence of the room
with, startling effect and made all the
more painful the hopeless misery written
in the faces of his parents.
The doctor looked at him for q
moment, and then turned to his father.
Eyes, am just in the nick of time, he
said. IAN hour later, and the only
hope would be a resort to the operation
of tracheotomy. AS it is can save him
without doing any cutting. This opera
ton is called intubstion, continued the
doctor, addressing himself to me. ut
is the invention of a New York
physician and is of incalcuable benefit
in diphtheria, malignant Group and
kindred throat diseases. This instru-
ment," he added, taking from the case
| two-handled instrument remotely
resembling pair of pinchers. lis called
the mouth gag
He deity inserted the steel ends
between the teeth of the patient and
forced open his mouth. held the
handles while he was busy at his case
and saw that it was impossible for the
boy to close his mouth, try as hard as
he would. Next the doctor drew out q
little steel tube, gilded over. This was
small at one end and large at the
other and swelled considerably toward
the centre.
The large end was Asttened out so
that it projected beyond the body of the
tube all around. 1t was two and q
half inches In length and about one
fifth of an inch in diameter. The doctor
deity drew q silk thread through 8
small hole near the large end of the
tube. Next he inserted little piece of
steel into the tube so that it fitted
firmly and screwed the steel to another
instrument with a long handle. Put
ting the tube into the boys open
mouth, he quickly inserted it into his
larynx. Satisfied that it was properly
adjusted, he touched spring in the
handle of the instrument and out it
came, taking with it the piece of steel
which had been fitted INTO the tube.
Only the tube remained with the thread
hanging out of the boys mouth.
| The doctor cut the thread, removed
the mouth gag, and the operation was
J finished. Not drop of blood had been
shed and the patient had suffered hardly
a twinge of pain from it.
Won't the tube slipP" asked the
anxious father.
"Oh, no" was reply. It cannot do
so. The bulge at the center and the
projection at the upper end prevent il
} from moving up or down. He can tall
or eat just as well with it in as though
he had nothing there"
Even as the doctor spoke, the dark
choked look left the boys face, and his
heavy breathing began to quiet down
His eyes lost their wild, staring ap-
pearance, and a more natural color
came into his cheeks. He was saved
The inventor of the intubator is DR..
0'Dwyer,. of New York, who nobly
refused to patent his process, making of
it a free gift to the public.